Thing 13

I have fallen in love with Zoho Writer. I love the fact that I can view some things while offline also. This program has various uses. I am able to create appointments, create databases, share this with others and let them change things. This is extremely helpful while in a masters class. We did lots of group work, but everyone was not always able to get together to brainstorm and edit the paper. With Zoho writer this is possible without having to email the document then waiting for it to come back before you can see the changes and respond.

Thing 17

While viewing delicious, I immediately thought about web sites that my students could use for math tutorials, extra help, and homework help. I am going to set up some tags for them and their parents to use while away from school. I think I will use this with my team members to prepare lesson plans and cross curriculum plan. In our school libraries this would be a great way for librarians to help students choose books that are interesting. A student will have the option of searching tags for things that they would like to read. It can also be used for research.

Thing 16

I chose igoogle for my start page. To be honest, I already had that start page, but it did not have anything on it. I added some special interest things and rearranged the features. This will remain my permanent page.
I created the online calendar through yahoo. Again because I already use yahoo, it made it easy to add things to it and navigate through the calendar. I can use this for meetings, deadlines, and birthdays.
I chose stikkit to exlore. I needed a way to jot things down and come back to it. I use stickies all the time and I feel like this would be helpful online. I usually forget some things that I need to do or explore, so with stikkit I can leave myself a sticky note.
The tadalist was my favorite. I am planning a massive family vacation for 2009. This includes everyone in my family. I will use this to send out list of things that need to be done and we can all update it as needed. I can also assign certain things to certain people and they can complete them at will.

Thing 15

At my campus we are placed into teams. Our team has to collaborate together to come up with ideas for discipline, lessons, activities, field trips, and other things. Email is so slow, and it is hard for 5 people to collaborate together with so many emails going in and out. With the wiki I think it will create a place for us to share and collaborate without having to send and receive emails. It will allow us to change things so that it fits our plan and everyone can have an input. During taks time we very seldom get to meet face to face. Wiki will allow us to continue to meet but from a distance:)

Thing 14

Our 6th grade curriculum has now made it mandatory that we incorporate thinking maps into our lessons. I personally don't like the kid drawn thinking maps. They don't get them quite right. It also waste some time getting them drawn. Now that we have giffy.com, I can take them to the computer lab and let them do certain flow charts using this site. I also do a lesson in geometry where the children have to draw the floor plan of their house, this site would be beneficial to them so that they can get a better visual of what it should look like. The mind maps are a little different. You can't make different designs so I don't think I will be using it very much.

Thing 12

I decided that I would tour the google calendar. This tool is very useful for students who have trouble remembering when things are due. This calendar has a reminder on it and they can benefit from that. It would be exceptionally useful when they have a project that is to be done in stages. The next thing I looked into was google notebook tour. This tool is useful to me when I am putting together a lesson. I sometimes find lessons that I would like to use, however it does not fit my situation perfectly. I then go to another site to help tweek the lesson. With notebook, I can add them all to one page.